So I was at the airport and I met a man from Belgium. We had a really neat conversation, and one of the things I said to him was:

Ik lere Vlaams omdat ik wil dat mensen glimlachen.

I'm more of a German kind of guy, and this seems like the most direct way to say it with that syntax. But I know that just like "weil" in German, "omdat" inverts the word order, though I'm not sure there is any word order to be inverted here. I'm planning on using this anecdote in my speech, and I'd like to preserve most of the integrity of my conversation with that guy at the airport, while still being grammatically correct in Vlaams. I'd appreciate any thoughts on vocabulary or pronunciation specific to Flemish, as well as making sure my grammar is correct.